One of the most common methods of medical diagnosis is the analysis of human body fluids. With almost any ailment, the therapist first of all requires the patient to donate blood and urine. It would seem that the difficult thing is to collect the material and take it to the laboratory?
How to take a urine test?
There are several requirements and nuances in this matter. You must know for what purpose urine is collected. Because it is one thing to take a general urine test. But, besides him, there are other studies that require this material. So, the therapist can direct the patient to take a urine test for salt, for sugar content, for a Nechiporenko study. Based on the destination, urine is collected in completely different ways.
In addition, you need to know the features of hygiene and daily routine necessary for the results of the analysis to be reliable. Of course, a competent doctor before prescribing such studies should explain in detail to the patient what and how to do. But due to the fact that the practice of family medicine in our country is not too developed, ordinary therapists in clinics do not always take the trouble to educate the patient.
Where?
So the information on how to take a urine test will not be superfluous. And let's start with the most common form of this study. Let's find out what are the requirements for a type of general urine test. Where to hand over the material to it? You can contact the laboratory of the clinic, hospital or women's consultation at the place of residence. There, most likely, you will have to stand in line, but they will take the analysis from you for free or for conditional “charity”.
Another option is to contact one of the independent private medical laboratories or diagnostic centers. Their advantage is fast and quality service, providing results on time. But for these advantages you will have to pay and sometimes a considerable amount.
Advice
Before taking a urine test, it is better to refrain from fatty and spicy foods, alcohol, drugs. You need to take it on an empty stomach, early in the morning, collecting the first morning portion of urine in a specially designed container, which can be purchased at a pharmacy. Of the typical mistakes made by people with this analysis, the most common is collecting material in unsterilized jars or containers made of low-quality plastic. Also, not everyone knows that before collecting urine, you should wash your genitals, and in the direction from the anus. The first few milliliters should not be collected. Also, do not collect the entire portion - doctors need only 50 milliliters.
But if you need to identify the level of sugar, you need to collect daily urine. And this task, as it turned out, is also not for everyone.
How to take a urine test for sugar? It is necessary to collect the material produced by the body in a day in a dark glass container. You need to take a small part of it to the laboratory. Instead, it is not uncommon for such an incident as the three-liter bottles full of urine brought by patients. Also, people do not always understand the expression “daily urine” correctly — sometimes they bring in material that has been asserted in the bank for a day.
Thus, the rules for passing tests must be explained to many patients, otherwise the results of such studies will be able to perplex both the patient himself and his attending physician.